“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
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“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
“Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.”
“I only know that I know nothing”
“My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.”
“Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?”
“Do not trouble about those who practice philosophy, whether they are good or bad; but examine the thing itself well and carefully. And if philosophy appears a bad thing to you, turn every ma...”
“Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they're fools, and fools who think they are wise.”
“True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.”
“God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves w...”
“God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the inter...”
“I examined the poets, and I look on them as people whose talent overawes both themselves and others, people who present themselves as wise men and are taken as such, when they are nothing of...”
“Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?”
“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
“The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.”
“هرچه جستجو کردم کسی را نیافتم که به نادانی خویش اعتراف کند. حال که من میدانم خود از همه نادان ترم، داناترین مردمانم.”
“The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.”
“Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.”
“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.”
“If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but...”
“How many things can I do without?”